BBC Four & CBBC to close

[Andrew]

Now that I think of it though......reading the press release has made me think
So as things stand roght now CBBC, BBC Four and BBC Radio 4 Extra will be closed in 2025, now could this be some sort of a way to delay the closure of the channels until after the next General Election, hoping that the Conservative Party loses and that Labour (or whoever else will be in Government) give a bit more funds to the BBC so that these closures could be avoided? Because remember when BBC Three's closure was first proposed, it was in 2014 and then it was approved in 2015, but bear in mind that the plan was approved by the BBC Trust after the 2015 GE (provisional approval in June 2015, full approval in November).......I don't know maybe I just wrote complete b******t, but still.......

I'm sure the BBC would hope for a favourable change of circumstances -- whether a change of government, or a change of policy from the current government. But that would require a massive public backlash against the BBC switching a small number of TV/radio services to online only. Given everything else in British politics, I doubt that's the sort of thing that's going to swing many votes.

Not being political but in the current cost of living crisis, no government of any colour is going to increase the licence fee which would hit ‘hard working families and those on the lowest incomes’. So I can’t imagine any change to the current situation whatever happens in the next few years.